Indonesia

The world's largest Buddhist temple, built in the 8th–9th centuries in Central Java, a 2.5 km gallery of carved stone panels forming a three-dimensional mandala above the Kedu Plain.

A volcanic island archipelago in East Nusa Tenggara, established in 1980, famous for the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) and surrounding reefs rated among the world's best diving sites.

An active volcano (2,329 m) inside the Tengger caldera in East Java, one of Indonesia's most visited natural landmarks, known for the pre-dawn view across the Sea of Sand to the smoking crater against the backdrop of Mount Semeru.

Indonesia's largest Hindu temple complex, built in the mid-9th century near Yogyakarta, famous for its three towering spires dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma and for the nightly Ramayana ballet performed in its shadow.

An 11th-century Balinese Hindu temple perched on a limestone cliff 70 m above the Indian Ocean at Bali's southern tip, one of the island's six principal temples and the venue for the nightly open-air Kecak fire dance.

A remote archipelago of over 1,500 islands off West Papua, at the center of the Coral Triangle and the world's most biodiverse marine region, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023.